By John Kent
Wesley and the Wesleyans demanding situations the loved fantasy that in the meanwhile whilst the Enlightenment and the economic Revolution have been threatening the soul of eighteenth-century England, an evangelical revival - led by means of the Wesleys - stored it. it's going to curiosity a person considering the heritage of Methodism and the Church of britain, the Evangelical culture, and eighteenth-century non secular concept and adventure. The e-book begins from the idea that there has been no large-scale non secular revival throughout the eighteenth century. as an alternative, the position of what's referred to as 'primary faith' - the conventional human look for methods of drawing supernatural energy into the personal lifetime of the person - is analysed when it comes to the emergence of the Wesleyan societies from the Church of britain. The Wesleys' achievements are reassessed; there's clean, unsentimental description of the position of ladies within the circulate, and an unexpectedly sympathetic photograph emerges of Hanoverian Anglicanism.
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